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Erica Lehrer


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Erica Lehrer (born 1969) is an anthropologist, curator, and academic specializing in post-Holocaust Jewish culture, museum studies, ethnography, and public scholarship. She is Associate Professor of History and Sociology/Anthropology at Concordia University, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies and serves as director of the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab at Concordia University.

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She has received a B.A. from Grinnell College and M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan.

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Awards


  • Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies
  • Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology
  • Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in Jewish Studies, University of Washington
  • Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    • Curatorial work

    In 2013, Lehrer curated "Souvenir, Talisman, Toy," an ethnographic exhibition of historical and contemporary Polish-made figurines depicting Jews, at the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków. A smaller selection of objects and media from the exhibit was on display from July 28 – August 30, 2013, at the Galicia Jewish Museum. In 2016, she curated a new exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum titled "A Single Point Perspective/Punkt Zbiezny."

    Publications

  • "Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions", McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-77354683-7
  • "Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland", Indiana University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-253-01503-7
  • Na szczęście to Żyd / Lucky Jews: Poland's Jewish Figurines, Ha!art Press, 2014, ISBN 978-83-64057-42-7
  • Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places, Indiana University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-253-00886-2
  • co-editor, Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-29672-5

    • References

    Erica Lehrer Wikipedia
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